Affordable Art Fair

Saatchi Art is delighted to present the works of 11 emerging artists at the Affordable Art Fair in New York City. The fair takes place at the Metropolitan Pavilion from March 26th – March 29th, with a Private Preview Party the evening of March 25th.

Vicky Barranguet

Vicky Barranguet was born in Uruguay and now lives and works in New York City. She studied with painters Larry Poons, William Scharf, and Frank O’Cain at the Art Students League of New York. Her gestural abstract paintings stem from an interest in a spontaneous pictorial structure, in which improvisation, compositional organization, and an attention to detail exist simultaneously. She also explores the relationships between different art forms; she has created a collection of hand-painted dresses that were featured in Uruguay’s Fashion Week, as well as a live painting show with original, Latin Grammy-nominated music. She has exhibited extensively in the US, Uruguay, and Europe. Most recently, her work was shown at the Imperiale Art Gallery in Uruguay; The Bohemian Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Art, Montevideo-Punta del Este; Paseo de las Artes, Montevideo; and at ARTEMISA, the Contemporary Latin American Art in Chelsea, New York.

Shaina Craft

Shaina Craft earned a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and is currently pursuing a MFA in painting at the New York Academy of Art, which she is expected to receive in May 2015. She works with oil paint, chalk pastel, watercolor, and various printmaking techniques, and creates figurative works that explore the human body. Often, she layers the human body onto itself, so that it comes to reference the contours of natural landscapes. Shaina participated in the Hudson Valley Plein Air Residency in 2014. She has exhibited at numerous galleries in New York, including First Street Gallery and Dacia Gallery; her works have been shown at the New York Academy’s Deck the Walls and Tribeca Ball. Her works have also been exhibited at the Pennsylvania State Museum and the Multiple Choice Gallery in Bluebell, PA, where she received awards for Best in Show, as well as both Judge’s Picks.

Charlotte Evans

Charlotte Evans was born in London, where she graduated from Byam Shaw at Central Saint Martin’s. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. The focus of her work was until a few years ago solely on landscape, color and light; but after a trip to Asia, she began to incorporate figurative elements into her paintings. Charlotte is a masterful colorist, and each of her works vividly capture “things remembered and imagined,” as well as intense moments of experience. Her work has been shown at the Affordable Art Fairs in London and New York, as well as at the Florence Biennale in 2011. She exhibits extensively in New York, including solo shows at Five Points Gallery. Her work was featured at the NURTUREart Benefit in 2014, as well as in the show, Away We Go: Brooklyn Emerging Artists at The Curator Gallery in 2014.

Clara Fialho

Clara Fialho was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and lives in New York City. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2006. Her abstracted artworks combine sumptuous colors with circular and simple shapes. Her joyous compositions range in size from petite watercolors and drawings to colossal canvases that overwhelm the viewer with their inherent beauty. She has exhibited extensively in group, two-person, and solo shows, including NYC’s Merge Gallery and Tria Gallery. She had her first solo show in Chelsea at age 22.Most recently, her work has been exhibited at Art Miami (2014), Art Silicon Valley San Francisco (2014), and Scope New York (2015). Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including the cover of New York Spaces Magazine.

Thomas Hammer

Thomas studied at Cornell University and lives in New York. Thomas Hammer makes gestural black and white ink drawings, as well as paintings and works on paper occasionally using more vibrant colors. His works are a stunning manifestation of control, balancing chaos and harmony in an attempt “to create emotionally impactful works that explore the relationship between human activity and our natural surroundings.” His works have been included in exhibitions across the US and have been placed in collections in the US and internationally. Most recently, his work was exhibited at the UNICEF Next Generation Art Party. His work has also been featured in Architectural Digest.

Christy Powers

Christy Powers was born in New York, and received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA with distinction from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales (2007). She works with ink, gouache, and watercolors, and her main subjects are girls, social media, and youth culture. The out-of-focus quality of her artworks metaphorically signifies the effects of fading memories. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, including at the Bronx Museum, the Queen Victoria Museum, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, White Box, MadArts Gallery, and Giacobetti Paul Gallery. She has participated in residencies at ILIRI in the Australian Outback, and at the AIM program at the Bronx Museum. Most recently, her work has been exhibited at Scope, Miami (2014), and Brick Lane Gallery, London (2015).

Dean West

Dean West is an award-winning Australian photographer who now lives in New York. He received a BA in Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in 2007. He has been described as “one of the world’s best emerging photographers,” and has been featured in top photography magazines and galleries. Dean has won many prestigious awards: in 2008 he was included in Saatchi & Saatchi’s collection of the world’s top 100 emerging photographers, and later that year won the Advertising Photographer of the Year at the International Aperture Awards. In 2009 he was the winner of the IV International Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy. His “In Pieces” series is currently touring museums and galleries throughout the US, UK and Europe including the Franklin Institute Museum, Philadelphia; the Faneuil Hall Museum, Boston; and the Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles. His work can be found in many collections internationally, including Sir Elton John’s which is considered one of the most significant photography collections in the world.

Charles Wilkin

Charles Wilkin currently splits his time between Brooklyn and the Catskills, New York. He received his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio. The subject matter of his collages is derived primarily from déjà vu, unexpected experiences, headlines, music, and overheard snippets of conversation. Through his work, he explores the dialogue between cause and effect in an effort to reveal the true meaning of human behavior. He combines conventional artistic mediums with modern technologies, such as using giclée with polymer gel transfers and digital manipulation. He has exhibited extensively in New York, including at Masters Projects, Rivera Gallery, Invisible Dog Art Center, Ugly Art Room, and Calico Brooklyn. He has also exhibited internationally at the Gestalten Space, Berlin, and Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg. His work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts, Hamburg, Germany.